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THERE  are  several  questions  which  every  young  lady  who  is 
preparing  to  go  off  to  school  and  every  parent  who  is  about 
to  send  a  daughter  away  to  be  educated,  would  like  to  have 
plainly  answered  by  the  College  authorities. 

You  will  probably  find  the  ver^  'questions  which  are  most  inter- 
esting to  you  at  this  season  answered  in  the  following  statement : 

1.  What  of  the  climate?  We  answer,  without  hesitation,  that 
there  is  none  like  it  anywhere  where  educational  advantages  may 
be  also  enjoyed.  Our  city  has  been  celebrated  for  fifty  years  as  a 
health  resort  in  summer.  Within  the  last  ten  years  it  has  become 
even  more  famous  as  a  winter  resort.  Thousands  seek  the  winter 
climate  of  Asheville  every  year.  With  the  recent  addition  of  miles 
of  superb  pavements  and  a  perfected  sewerage  system,  the  attrac- 
tions are  greater  than  ever  before. 

2.  What  kind  of  health  record  has  the  School?  The  School 
has  been  in  operation  for  fifty  years,  and  in  that  time,  with  pupils 
from  all  the  climates  of  America,  there  has  never  been  a  death 
among  boarding  pupils  from  a  disease  originating  here.  The  bills 
of  the  College  physician  for  1892- '93  amounted  to  only  $26.00. 

3.  What  does  it  cost?  Board,  furnished  room,  lights,  servant's 
attendance,  with  tuition  in  the  Collegiate  Course,  $200  per  session. 
Extras  are  all  reasonable.  If  you  will  write  and  state  exactly  what 
you  want  we  will  give  an  exact  statement  of  the  cost.  Meanwhile 
we  can  safely  state  in  general  that  the  cost  is  less  here  in  proportion 
to  the  consideration  rendered  in  return  than  anywhere  else  within 
the  range  of  our  acquaintance.     The  School  is  designed,  however, 


to  meet  the  demands  of  persons  who  have  means  with  which  to  fur- 
nish their  daughters  with  first-class  opportunities  and  cannot,  there- 
fore, compete  in  simple  price  with  schools  of  lower  grade. 
4.      What  are  the  special  attractions  of  the  School? 

(1)  The  home  life.  There  is  within  the  College  none  of  that 
cold  isolation  of  pupils  from  the  teachers  and  the  family,  which  at 
that  period  of  developing  character,  is  so  dwarfing  to  the  social 
instincts  of  the  pupil.  We  make  for  the  young  ladies  a  home,  warm 
with  the  kindliest  personal  interest  in  each,  and  brilliant  with  those 
social  occasions  best  calculated  to  make  the  pupils  happy  and  to  pre- 
vent their  falling  into  a  constrained  and  awkward  habit  in  society. 

(2)  The  home  itself  is  provided  with  every  comfort.  The 
rooms  are  for  two  pupils  each,  and  are  furnished  in  cherry  and  Brus- 
sels with  all  other  needed  conveniences.  The  entire  building  is 
heated  by  steam,  which  has  been  demonstrated  to  be  the  most  health- 
ful and  agreeable  kind  of  heating.  The  sanitary  plumbing  is  of  the 
most  modern  kind  throughout,  including  porcelain  lined  bath  tubs. 

(3)  The  Physical  Culture  Course.  A  Gymnasium  newly  fur- 
nished with  hundreds  of  dollars  worth  of  the  most  approved  appar- 
atus, is  one  of  the  new  attractions.  In  this  work  the  young  ladies 
and  under  the  training  of  a  lady  of  the  highest  qualifications,  not 
only  for  directing  the  exercises  but  also  for  teaching  them  all  phys- 
iological and  health  laws  necessary  for  the  perfection  of  their  phys- 
iques. This  provision  cannot  be  too  highly  valued.  Without  this 
training  in  young  womanhood  there  is  no  possibility  of  perfect  health 
and  complete  beauty.  Each  pupil  on  entering  the  Physical  Culture 
Course  will  be  examined  by  the  teacher  as  to  physical  peculiarities. 
Tests  will  be  made  by  weight  and  measurements,  and  by  the  spir- 
ometer and  stethoscope,  when  necessary,  so  that  a  training  exactly 
suited  to  each  person  may  be  adopted.  By  this  means,  not  only 
will  proper  exercise  be  secured,  but  all  undue  exertion  will  be 
avoided.  The  young  ladies  will,  in  their  exercises,  use  a  uniform 
consisting  of  a  blouse  and  divided  skirt.  The  young  ladies  of  Ashe- 
ville  Female  College  thus  have  opportunities  equal  to  those  fur- 
nished to  the  voung  men  in  our  best  equipped  colleges  and  training- 
schools.     Miss  Mary  Edwards,  of  Illinois,  a  graduate  of  Dr.   Sar- 


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geant's  School  of  Physical  Culture  and  of  Vassar  College,  will  have 
charge  of  the  Gymnasium  and  will  teach  Physiology.  She  will  also 
give  special  attention  to  the  direction  of  young  ladies  in  the  up- 
building and  preserving  of  their  health.  Out-of-door  amusements 
will  consist  of  Lawn  Tennis,  Croquet,  Foot-ball,  Bicycle  and  Horse- 
back Riding  if  desired. 

(4)  The  School  of  Music.  Prof.  Grabau  (Conservatory  of 
Leipsig)  has  charge  of  the  Music  Department,  and  teaches  Piano 
and  Organ.  Prof.  Grabau  was  for  thirteen  years  teacher  of  music 
in  the  Nashville  College  far  Young  Ladies,  where  he  stood  at  the 
head  of  the  musical  profession.  Miss  Bailey,  the  most  celebrated 
young  musician  who  has  ever  gone  from  America  to  the  music  cen- 
ters of  Germany,  was  taught  by  him,  and  by  no  other,  up  to  the  time 
of  her  entering  the  Leipsig  Conservatory.  Within  one  year  she  won 
the  music  prize  over  more  than  five  hundred  of  the  foremost  young 
musicians  in  Germany;  and  she  has  since  had  accorded  her  such 
honors  as  no  musician  so  young  as  she  has  ever  received.  Young- 
ladies  may,  by  paying  ten  dollars  per  term  above  the  usual  charge 
for  music  lessons,  have  the  whole  of  their  work  under  Prof.  Grabau. 
The  number,  however,  is  limited,  and  application  ought  to  be  made 
early.  There  were  many  more  applicants  the  past  year  than  could 
get  places.  Young  ladies  who  complete  Prof.  Grabau's  course  will 
receive  a  diploma  in  music 

Miss  Mary  Lee  Leftwich,  herself  a  singer  of  a  very  high  order, 
will  have  charge  of  the  department  of  voice  culture.  All  the  assis- 
tants are  fine  musicians. 

Not  least  among  the  attractions  of  the  School  is  the  fact  that 
it  is  located  in  Asheville,  the  most  beautiful,  aggressive  and  ele- 
gant young  city  in  the  South.  Its  climate,  scenery,  architect- 
ural beauty;  its  electric  lights  and  railway,  sewerage  system, 
water  works  and  delightful  streets;  its  banking  facilities,  magni- 
ficent mercantile  establishments,  fine  churches,  and  its  solid, 
intelligent  citizenship,  reinforced  by  the  presence,  in  both  sum- 
mer and  winter,  of  thousands  of  visitors  from  the  foremost  fam- 
ilies of  the  nation,  make  it  a  most  delightful  place  for  the  devel- 


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opment  of  the  intellect  and  tastes  of  the  young.  Hard  by 
the  city  on  one  side  is  the  Bingham  School,  so  widely  known 
through  three  generations;  and  on  the  othor  side  is  the  far-famed 
Vanderbilt  estate,  which  baffles  description,  and  rivals  in  genu- 
ine magnificence  the  most  renowned  home  places  in  the  world. 
Every  one  who  has  seen  it  will  grant  that  it  is  impossible  to  get 
a  conception  of  its  beauty,  its  splendor,  except  by  seeing  it. 
Visitors  are  allowed  to  enjoy  its  beauties,  one  view  of  which  is 
worth  a  long  journey  to  Asheville 

By  the  courtesy  and  liberality  of  Mr.  F.  Stikeleather,  the 
teachers  and  young  ladies  of  the  College  enjoy  an  annual  carri- 
age drive  to  this  resplendent  mansion  and  through  the  estate. 

We  take  pleasure  in  referring  to  all  the  young  ladies  whose 
names  are  in  our  annual  catalogue  and  to  their  parents  or  guar- 
dians for  testimony  as  to  the  comfort  and  happiness  of  the  College 
household,  and  the  faithfulness  with  which  every  pledge  is  ful- 
filled. 

We  shall  be  glad  to  send  you  a  catalogue  and  personally 
communicate  any  further  information  you  may  desire  in  regard 
to  the  School.     Catalogues  will  be  promptly  sent  on  application. 


Address, 


REV!  JAMES  ATKINS, 

Asheville  Female  College, 
Asheville,  N.  C 


